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First 40 days as success. after a month of the president largely going it alone ep acting policy by executive order, trump is also expected to turn his focus to the list of legislation he wants congress to bring to his desk. joining me now, eric boller, senior fellow for media matters, "washington post" opinion writer jennifer rubin, and msnbc contributor and "washington post" columnist e.j. dion. welcome, all. i just want to take a survey of the three of you. how likely is it that we are going ...

Complete disarray on both obamacare and the tax plan. i would be surprised if he gives specifics in that area. i think hell talk in the same generalities, well give you something on health care thats better, cheaper, thats bigger, shinier, newer, with very few details because of course theres nothing that will meet all those criteria. i think there will be generalities, i think he will beat up on the press and i think hell tout a lot of his immigration stuff, whether its the wall or the new depo...

Continues for month after month. >> eric, what about -- the perception of chaos, but then jennifer brought up the demonstrations, whats happening at the town halls, and what im fascinated by is we are a month into the trump presidency. there have been protests sort of every weekend and sporadically, various days, every day of his presidency. how long do you think that that energy and anger and activism will continue? and can it continue long enough for the democratic party to capitalize on it an...

This is kind of a way to create these monumental distractions. look, the problem for the speech for the press is going to be monumental, right. theres going to be a laundry list of falsehoods even if it is a more formal type of a speech. steven miller is writing it. it will be filled with falsehoods. the perez, we are so far beyond the point trump gaifs speech and then we fact check and thats kind of what were supposed to do. i think that was okay for the summer of 2015. we are in a crisis at th...

Has a lot of the perez running around. frankly, when you have someone like darrell issa, the sort of inquisitor general on the republican side, calling for an independent prosecutor for this president, i think something is taking hold and i think if the democrats focus on first of all defend ong the specifics, forcing trump to come fort worth specifics, and secondly, really hammering him on the ethics and on the constitutional issues, they will make some headway. >> do you think, eric, theyll ma...

The best for all of us. >> heres the thing, and i think for donald trump the reason to do it, one reason to do it is that his brand is otherwise in a lot of trouble. >> right. >> traffic is down on some estimates 59% at trump hotels. i did a speaking gig at the college and give me a stream of consciousness when i say trump and what it means, 15 years ago they would say wealth, populism, bling. now they say young, racism, words that college-aged students were associating. this is toxic for his br...

Operation, newsmax tv or one america and might just say, hey, give me a big fall check and make the most of it. >> do what you can. >> thats been his model in the construction business. >> the one thing i do wonder is if he does that and lends his name to it, eric, then doesnt it follow that were going to start to see boycotts? yesterday we reported on people who were calling on the lpga to pull, you know, the upcoming womens golf tournament from donald trumps golf courses. you know, there is a ...

How do you now deal with that? i mean, look, we cant figure out what to do with 12 million illegal immigrants, what are you going to do with 12 million americans that are now in this new health care system, are you going to kick them out? no. so these are some realities that i think the party has to deal with in an open, honest way. its not enough to say repeal and not even enough to say replace, its got with something substantive to fix what is arguably a yet-to-be determined system. >> eric, b...

Vote earlier -- late last week. so the reality of it is going forward how does this now play out, what are the real numbers, what do the insurance premiums look like when the insurance companies start doling out those numbers in the next few weeks or months and then well begin to see how obamacare will play ultimately for all those folks who are coming into the marketplace versus those who are already in it. >> yeah, eric. >> well, again, thats a good point, but this has always been yes but, yes...

Un uninsured now. >> eric, your top line is absolutely right. nobody is going to say, oh, no, we shouldnt insure anybody but the question becomes at what cost. its not just financial but a personal cost people will have to pay by having the government play a role that is has here to for not played in their health care and thats a legitimate debate. obamacare and a website is one thing. the practice of actually having patients in the system, accessing the system, getting the doctors they want, ge...